Senior Psychiatric Nurse

Barwon Health; Geelong; Presencial; AUD 120 000 - 150 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Salary packaging benefits

24/7 Employee Assistance Program

Meals and entertainment cap

Living expenses cap

Resumo da oferta

Barwon Health's Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Services invites a Senior Psychiatric Nurse to lead the Mental Health Education Team (MHET). You will shape how our mental health workforce learns and grows, deliver mandatory training, and partner with the Director of Nursing to implement the workplan.

You will foster clinical supervision, embed coproduction, and drive continuous improvement, ensuring best practice translates into care.

Qualificações

• Experienced mental health nursing leader with a strong background in learning and development.
• Ability to use data and evidence to guide decisions and improvements.
• Familiarity with Chief Mental Health Nurse frameworks and transformation actions.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and manage the MHET team, including operations, briefings/reports, line supervision, and KPI reporting.
• Develop and oversee mental health training and development for the workforce.
• Lead annual review of the MHET learning and development calendar.
• Embed clinical supervision across the service.
• Support research outcomes to inform practice, policy, and procedures.
• Champion coproduction and continuous improvement.
• Represent Mental Health Nursing in internal/external contexts and drive nurse-led projects.

Conhecimentos

Mental health leadership

Learning & development

Clinical supervision

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder engagement

Formação académica

Division 1 Registered Nurse with specialist psychiatric/mental health qualifications

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Lead a high-performing multidisciplinary team of mental health educators

Represent mental health learning and development across Barwon Health

Shape and deliver evidence-based mental health education underpinned by continuous quality improvement

About the role

Barwon Health's Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Services (MHDAS) provides specialist care across the region. The Mental Health Education Team (MHET) supports that workforce through a dedicated multidisciplinary team. MHET delivers contemporary, evidence-informed learning and development aligned with both discipline specific and core mental health workforce capability frameworks, current standards and legislation. The team works with our Lived Experience Workforce to embed coproduction in education. It also partners with Barwon Health's Centre for Education and Training, universities, TAFEs and statewide bodies such as the Victorian Collaborative Centre and the Office of the Chief Mental Health Nurse.

As Senior Psychiatric Nurse, you'll manage the MHET team and shape how our mental health workforce learns and grows. This includes relevant mandatory training for the mental health workforce. Working closely with the Director of Nursing, you'll develop and deliver the MHET workplan and other priority initiatives within MHDAS and the broader health service. You'll contribute to ensuring best practice standards are translated into practice, facilitate the provision of professional supervision and support of workforce to ensure the effective delivery of learning and develop to support increased competence and capability of staff. This is a senior role for a clinical leader who is passionate about nurturing staff growth and bringing innovation to how we develop our people.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the MHET team, including operations, development of briefings and reports, effective provision of line supervision, performance development and reporting against KPIs
• Develop and oversee effective implementation of mental health training and development for our workforce
• Lead the annual review of the MHET learning and development calendar
• Further embed clinical supervision across the service
• Support the advancement and utilisation of mental health nursing research outcomes into clinical practice, policy and procedures
• Champion coproduction, evaluation and continuous improvement
• Where delegated by the DON, represent mental health nursing internally and externally, leading nurse-led projects and supporting the implementation of new models of care and best practice

What We Are Looking For

You're an experienced mental health nursing leader with a strong background in learning and development, and a genuine commitment to nurturing the professional growth of others. You build effective relationships in a pressured, fast-paced environment, and you use data and evidence to guide your decisions. You proactively engage in clinical supervision and are familiar with Chief Mental Health Nurse frameworks and associated transformation actions

• Current AHPRA registration as a Division 1 Registered Nurse with specialist psychiatric/mental health nursing qualifications
• At least 10 years' experience in mental health, including senior leadership roles in a complex public health setting
• Meet all requirements of the Position Description and relevant Enterprise Agreement

Position Description

Please note Barwon Health will only contact you via our official email and never use unconventional means, such as text messaging or other services.

• Excellent working conditions and a strong sense of job satisfaction
• A vibrant staff wellbeing program and access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
• Attractive salary packaging benefits
• Living expenses capped at $9,010
• Meals and entertainment capped at $2,650

Diversity and Inclusion

Barwon Health is an inclusive and welcoming employer, committed to reflecting the diverse communities we serve. We value and celebrate people of all genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, faiths, abilities, family structures, and identities, and encourage applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and members of the LGBTIQA+ community.

Additional information

If you need adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at ************@barwonhealth.org.au

All appointments are subject to

• Satisfactory Police Record Check
• Immunisation Status Clearance
• Working with Children Check (if applicable)